Introducing deep inelastic scattering in high energy particle physics, Devenish and Cooper-Sarkar (both of the Department of Physics, U. of Oxford, UK) update the overview of the topic provided in Roberts'
The Structure of the Proton
(CUP 1990), but from a more experimental perspective and with particular reference to nucleon structure. After covering the theoretical formalism and experimental technique of the field, hey examine the extraction of parton momentum distributions and the extension of the measurements and the formalism to very low values of parton momentum. They also present the formalism that will be required to analyze the high luminosity, high momentum transfer data from the HERA-II ep collider and discuss the prospects for electroweak physics at large momentum transfer. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR